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" What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work. "
Ian McShane
Your
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Hang
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" I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon. "
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" I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45. "
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" I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along. "
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" You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife? "
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" My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.' "
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" When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own. "
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" Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. "
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" People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive. "
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" Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start. "
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" The bad boys get all the best lines. "
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" I don't do social media. "
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" Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?' "
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" I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. "
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" Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays. "
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" What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle. "
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Just
You
" My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. "
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" When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself. "
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" Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist. "
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" What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems. "
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Own
Problems
" The bad boy: always more fun. "
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Fun
" Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die. "
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Seventy
Generation
Die
" There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones. "
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" If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made. "
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